Commentary: For a moment, we are all Americans

8:48 AM,
Apr. 23, 2013

Written by

J. Earle Bowden

Americans prove their best in true darkness, when bomb fragments bloody our streets with death, the dying, severed limbs, innocence lost in the streaking flame of a terrorist's lighted fuse. They find the light and rescue the innocent victims from Hell Eternal.

They cannot know nor say why but suddenly ordinary people band together, silence their differences momentarily, liberal and conservative, agnostic and atheist, Christian, Jew, Muslin and other faiths.

At ground zero of another national nightmare they stand together across the land, lighting candles and piling bouquets of ...